WALL STREET JOURNAL HIGHLIGHTS HAWAI`I STOLEN LANDS
WSJ - March 12, 2009
WASHINGTON - Lawyers typically warn clients never to apologize for anything, since a plaintiff could seize upon the remorse as an admission of liability. But what happens when governments apologize?
A century after a cabal of American sugar planters, financiers and missionaries overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai`i, Congress said it was sorry. The U.S. Supreme Court soon will decide whether that apology meant anything - from a legal standpoint, at least.
The Hawai`i Supreme Court thought it did. Last year, that court cited the 1993 Apology Resolution to block the state from transferring any of the 1.2 million acres of land - some 29% of Hawai`i's total - received from the federal government upon statehood in 1959. Those lands once belonged to the Hawaiian crown or its subjects, and were confiscated by the Americans without compensation....
...The Americans eventually forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate and declared themselves rulers of a new Republic of Hawai`i.
The indigenous population soon was swamped by settlers from the mainland....
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Showing posts with label Illegal Overthow. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
FACTS SHOW ILLEGALITY OF OVERTHROW
Maui News - February 18, 2009
Those of you who talk like you were there when they overthrew the queen and the Hawaiian kingdom should go to hawaiiankingdom.org and get your facts straight, especially you Mainland people who talk about Hawai`i being a state and not knowing that long before that, Hawai`i was a kingdom.
Hawai`i was not a part of America - that's why our flag resembles the English flag. On Jan. 16, 1893, a small group of individuals conspired with the United States diplomat and military to overthrow the islands' constitutional monarchy and tried for annexation on Feb. 15, 1893, under a treaty submitted to the United States of America.
President Grover Cleveland, having received notice that the overthrow was a illegal intervention, withdrew the treaty of annexation and appointed James H. Blount as a special commissioner to investigate the terms of the so-called revolution and to report his findings.
The Executive Documents of the United States House of Representatives, 53rd Congress, 1894-95, Appendix II, Foreign Relations, 1894, Affairs in Hawai`i, vol. 1 and 2 explains it all.
There should be no doubt in anyone's mind about what happened on Jan. 16, 1893, and why the Hawaiian people believe that all lands should not be sold but be returned to the Kingdom of Hawai`i.
I could go on but I want you to go to the mentioned Internet site and educate yourself.
Allen Vierra
Pukulani, Maui
Maui News - February 18, 2009
Those of you who talk like you were there when they overthrew the queen and the Hawaiian kingdom should go to hawaiiankingdom.org and get your facts straight, especially you Mainland people who talk about Hawai`i being a state and not knowing that long before that, Hawai`i was a kingdom.
Hawai`i was not a part of America - that's why our flag resembles the English flag. On Jan. 16, 1893, a small group of individuals conspired with the United States diplomat and military to overthrow the islands' constitutional monarchy and tried for annexation on Feb. 15, 1893, under a treaty submitted to the United States of America.
President Grover Cleveland, having received notice that the overthrow was a illegal intervention, withdrew the treaty of annexation and appointed James H. Blount as a special commissioner to investigate the terms of the so-called revolution and to report his findings.
The Executive Documents of the United States House of Representatives, 53rd Congress, 1894-95, Appendix II, Foreign Relations, 1894, Affairs in Hawai`i, vol. 1 and 2 explains it all.
There should be no doubt in anyone's mind about what happened on Jan. 16, 1893, and why the Hawaiian people believe that all lands should not be sold but be returned to the Kingdom of Hawai`i.
I could go on but I want you to go to the mentioned Internet site and educate yourself.
Allen Vierra
Pukulani, Maui
Saturday, October 18, 2008
HAWAI`I'S QUEEN SPEAKS - OFFICIAL ANNEXATION TREATY PROTEST
Presented by Lili`uokalani in Washington DC - June 17, 1897
I, Lili`uokalani of Hawai`i, by the will of God named heir apparent on the tenth day of April, A.D. 1877, and by the grace of God Queen of the Hawaiian Islands on the seventeenth day of January, A.D. 1893, do hereby protest against the ratification of a certain treaty, which, so I am informed, has been signed at Washington by Messrs. Hatch, Thurston, and Kinney, purporting to cede those Islands to the territory and dominion of the United States. I declare such a treaty to be an act of wrong toward the native and part-native people of Hawai`i, an invasion of the rights of the ruling chiefs, in violation of international rights both toward my people and toward friendly nations with whom they have made treaties, the perpetuation of the fraud whereby the constitutional government was overthrown, and, finally, an act of gross injustice to me....
Presented by Lili`uokalani in Washington DC - June 17, 1897
I, Lili`uokalani of Hawai`i, by the will of God named heir apparent on the tenth day of April, A.D. 1877, and by the grace of God Queen of the Hawaiian Islands on the seventeenth day of January, A.D. 1893, do hereby protest against the ratification of a certain treaty, which, so I am informed, has been signed at Washington by Messrs. Hatch, Thurston, and Kinney, purporting to cede those Islands to the territory and dominion of the United States. I declare such a treaty to be an act of wrong toward the native and part-native people of Hawai`i, an invasion of the rights of the ruling chiefs, in violation of international rights both toward my people and toward friendly nations with whom they have made treaties, the perpetuation of the fraud whereby the constitutional government was overthrown, and, finally, an act of gross injustice to me....
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